National Aeronautics and Space Administration

To help you plan your RXTE proposals, we provide sample response matrices on our anonymous ftp site at https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/xte/nra/responses. Here, we provide plots made in XSPEC using a variety of data combinations.

The following are sample plots of the efficiency of the PCA for each detector, layer, and gain epoch.

• PCA efficiency by layer (epoch 3, all PCUs)

• PCA efficiency by detector (epoch 3, layer 1)

• PCA efficiency by gain epoch (layer 1, all detectors)

Note also that the example for Epoch 3 was from May, 1998, and in no way takes into account the gradual (~ 2 %/year) gain drift. See the PCA pages for more information.

The following are sample plots of the efficiency of the HEXTE clusters for each detector:

• Cluster 0(A) by detector

• Cluster 1(B) by detector

This page is maintained by the RXTE GOF and was last modified on Wednesday, 24-Aug-2022 11:10:30 EDT.